Writing Across the Curriculum Assignments, Classroom Activities, and Educational Resources for Higher Education
Students evaluate and improve a ChatGPT-generated response, identifying superficial elements, addressing missing points, and elaborating using class material. By varying the question given to the AI text generator, you can customize this assignment to any course.
Students use ChatGPT to produce an essay addressing their problem statement and research question, focusing on exploring the tool’s capabilities in generating initial ideas.
Students use ChatGPT to generate an essay based on their original premise, including a specified word count, humor elements, and key details.
This assignment focuses on developing students’ skills in writing compelling museum labels by using AI-generated content as a starting point. Students analyze ceramic objects, generate prompts for ChatGPT, critique the AI-generated labels, and reflect on the writing process.
Students identify the AI-generated piece from a set of three texts, developing their ability to discern subtle differences in writing styles and content.
Students engage with AI to learn new concepts tailored to their individual needs. They use the experience to receive and integrate feedback from the AI on their reflections and learning progress.
Teams receive AI-generated coaching to improve their collaborative writing process. The AI provides insights on group dynamics, task allocation, and communication, enhancing the overall quality of the team’s written output.
Students submit their writing to an AI tool to receive feedback on various aspects, such as clarity, coherence, and grammar.
The activity involves using AI as a personal tutor to enhance students’ learning experiences. It includes generating AI responses, evaluating their effectiveness, and reflecting on the learning process.
This assignment asks students to critically evaluate a response from AI by generating a question, examining the response, and writing a short analytical essay.
Students examine the music and social media presence of singers that they know well and compare their findings to the responses the ChatGPT provides about the singers.
This assignment engages students in dynamic writing exercises, emphasizes peer review for constructive feedback and enhances their technical writing skills and collaborative abilities.
This assignment integrates AI transcription tools into writing activities, emphasizing the importance of inclusivity, critical evaluation of AI accuracy and refining transcriptions into polished documents.
This assignment establishes explicit guidelines for when and how students can use AI, categorized into red, yellow, and green lights.
Students input their old essays into AI tools to receive feedback and learn to discern between good and bad advice. They also learn about paraphrasing versus plagiarism.
This assignment allows students to engage with AI-generated characters, providing a dynamic method for exploring and understanding character motivations and behaviors.
Students ask probing questions of AI outputs to test their validity and reliability.
This assignment emphasizes the importance of a rich descriptive vocabulary in art. Additionally, students learn to recognize and report biases in AI-generated art.
Students critically evaluate the outputs of AI tools, such as ChatGPT, by comparing them to human-generated responses.
Students diagnose and correct common sentence problems in their writing by identifying symptoms, understanding errors, proposing remedies, and reflecting on the learning process, with optional use of generative AI tools for assistance.
Students conduct preliminary research to assess the interest, relevance, and manageability of a chosen topic before committing to a long-term project, by setting criteria, searching for mainstream and scholarly views, and reflecting on how to refine the topic.
Students compare their own writing with AI-generated texts to understand their unique writing voice, identify differences in vocabulary, tone, and style, and apply this knowledge to enhance their writing authenticity.
Students conduct a comprehensive analysis of privacy impacts, which involves writing thorough assessments that consider various aspects of data security and user privacy within AI systems.
Students conduct a rhetorical analysis of the outputs generated by ChatGPT, critically evaluating the AI’s responses and the effectiveness of their own writing in eliciting meaningful and accurate information.